We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

Don't live your life to please other people.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.